Most voters want carbon tax scrapped: poll

Greg Hunt is confident the government's third attempt to repeal the carbon tax will be successful.Source: AAP

THE majority of voters want the carbon tax to be scrapped, a Newspoll has found.

ACCORDING to the poll published in The Australian, 53 per cent of voters want the Palmer United Party (PUP) to support the repeal bills, while 35 per cent want the party to vote against them.

The latest survey was conducted after the proposal to axe the controversial carbon tax was blocked by PUP senators on Thursday. The federal government has since been in talks with PUP staff to discuss further changes to the bills, ahead of it going back to the lower house on Monday. Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said he is still committed to abolishing the tax. The Newspoll of 1207 voters taken on Friday, Saturday and Sunday also shows 85 per cent of coalition supporters want the carbon tax scrapped immediately, while eight per cent want it to remain and seven per cent are undecided.
About 30 per cent of Labor supporters also want the tax's imminent removal, though the majority, 53 per cent, want Palmer United to block the bills.

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